holy shit. this is awesome.
Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
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Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#82Love the site and design.
BUT something already does this, for free, it's called keycard.
As someone else pointed out, very hard to find on app store, then also, it suddenly costs $3.99 in app store. YOU HID THAT PART NICELY.
One other thing, why name your zip file "latest.zip" - took me a good minute to find it in download folder.
Apple should already have this crap built in with new ios/mavericks though :( Also, does it work on my mac 2010? Doesn't look like it. >.Since iOS 7 - nothing works for this type of setup, Knock, or Keycard.
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#83>rolled up skinny jeans >hipster beard >authentic, vintage old storage space >edgy minimalism I am not buying it.
> practical minimalism
> slightly goofy credibility-straining setup
> tension-relieving drop-dead-simple interface
I'd have bought it already if not for my MacBookPro not supporting "low power bluetooth".
The sales pitch admittedly has nothing to do with the technology - yet that's practically the point! There's no specs to sell, no user interface to demo beyond a "knock knock" so simple you don't even have to take the phone out of your pocket. There's almost nothing to sell, yet what there is has value ($4, ok); how do you sell that? A just-a-guy in casual attire in a simple & slightly non-sequitur space works just fine. Simple product, presumably easy development, first-mover advantage (this thing will have a thousand duplicates overnight), near-zero ad production cost.
As for complaints about security: this is like the iOS fingerprint reader...it's not for serious security against serious attackers, it's about just locking your front door while making it easy for you to get in.
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#84i may be completely biased because i have long hair & a (sweet) beard, but … i'm finding it odd that there are people who feel like commenting on the appearance of the gentleman (actor/friend/founder/dude) in the video in a negative way. who cares how a guy in a video is dressed to demonstrate a product? and then even if you don't associate with the type of grooming or style of dress, that's totally cool, but to star…
The tech industry "meritocracy" at work.
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#85Love the site and design. BUT something already does this, for free, it's called keycard. As someone else pointed out, very hard to find on app store, then also, it suddenly costs $3.99 in app store. YOU HID THAT PART NICELY. One other thing, why name your zip file "latest.zip" - took me a good minute to find it in download folder. Apple should already have this crap built in with new ios/mavericks though :( Also, do…
* One other thing, why name your zip file "latest.zip" - took me a good minute to find it in download folder.
ls -lrt ~/Downloads
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#86Have purchased but cannot do anything, iPhone is waiting for Macbook and Macbook is waiting for iPhone, cycling bluetooth doesn't help (iPhone 5 and Macbook Air 2012) hmmm
Same with mine. I have a macbook pro retina
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#87this page breaks my browsers back button on osx.8 chrome 30.0.1599.101. no android app?
Android only has system level BLE as of 4.3 if I'm not mistaken, which has <3% adoption currently per Google.
Also, BLE support on most 4.3 devices is just broken. Fitbit's experience: https://help.fitbit.com/customer/portal/articles/987861-andr...
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#88+ great website
+ great UX
- knock just works if I touch my computer once (I would just type my password instead of knock my phone)
- knock does not lock my computer if I knock to get a water or something at work for example (version 2 maybe?)
- the download file could have the app name on it (I do not care about being a zip)
- Expensive for this kind of feature (0.99 would be more appropriate)
- Some information about how my password is being stored would be nice
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you underestimate how much delight it gives people. Search on Twitter and behold how many people are blown away by this 'magic.' Not to mention I wouldn't be surprised if they extended their app to work with other devices.
I suspect that this kind of delight, even though it becomes routine, actually enhances user experience in the long run. For example, I have compiz set to use the "Burn" effect when closing windows. This is delightful and unobtrusive, and completely pointless. But man is it a stress reliever when I decide to close all of my windows in frustration.
This is a good observation. You're probably right. Routine and habit and the actual experience of those routines and habits do have intrinsic value in the way you go about executing them :)
Re: Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
#90Here's a controversial position: This is not going to be popular amongst iOS devs (I am an iOS dev) but the best thing for iOS as a platform is for Apple to appropriate this.
With the M7 coprocessor, iOS would be able to register a callback for a given "gesture," like two knocks. Then the phone could implement such functionality while staying in standby! Combined with a facility for securely determining proximity, you could use such a facility to securely unlock everything.